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To rinse or not to rinse

Going to low n slow some babybacks today, been reading some internet that says thou shall not rinse, something about cross-contamination, bacteria in the sink. It would be a lot easier to not rinse. Before I always rinsed every slab and patted dry with paper towels then wiped out sink with Chlorax bleach.

So so do you guys rinse your ribs? Mine are from Costco.

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I rinse if they have a stank or are slimy or really drippy. Never have used Clorox in the sink though, just spray it down w/hot water. I think probably too much pork paranoia still around from our parents' generation.

I don't rinse and even read somewhere as mentioned above that even rinsing chicken is a waste of time. I still rinse chicken, because, well, it's chicken, but have never thought to rinse any other cut of meat.

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I never rinse meat out of a "white styrofoam tray covered with Saran Wrap", nor meats wrapped by my meatmonger in butcher paper. I always rinse meats coming out of a cryo-pak.There is no method, madness, or scientific reason I do this. I just do.

i worked with a kid in the meat department who would randomly snort up some phlegm and spit it into the 99 cent a pound steak tips (ca 1983)

and i myself forgot to put a plastic bin under the output hole of the thing we'd run the subprimals thru to be chopped up.

It all landed on the floor in the backroom of the meat department. I told my manager, expecting to be fired. He shrugged and kicked a bin over to me and we picked it up and plopped it in.

Wish you had said this earlier :-)

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Bah. Unless you suspect foul play in ground meat, something processed with a jaccard, or mechanically pounded like the fodder for a chikkin fried steak, cook it the way you want. The outside will get cooked. Most of the Costco meats are run through some tenderizing jaccard machine. Or they used to be. (i think that was on the label?). I have not heard of mass food poisoning from their pushing of surface bacteria into meat that's cooked rare, frequently.

The current predominant best practice is don't rinse, but that's just because they are safety nazis and assume the meat will splash water and contaminate stuff around the sink or where ever.

Ahi tuna should never be rinsed unless you have salt water and that's only if someone hocked a phlem ball or some diesel fuel on it. Denatures the meat. Oysters - nope. Scallops - nope. Clams - nope.

Rinsing most other meats doesn't hurt the meat. If it makes you feel better about it - by all means. You eat with your brain, not your stomach.

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I barely wash my hands after handling chicken and I have never gotten sick. I think most people are just paranoid.

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I can't remember ever rinsing beef, but pork & chicken, yes. Not on the locally packed styrofoam and plastic wrap, just when something is sealed up in a bag or cryo pack of some kind. For some reason I always rinse the liquid in chicken and pork packages, but the beef never strikes me as needing to be rinsed off. In my head, I suppose.

I figure what it comes down to is, is there any bacteria on the surface of the meat that can survive the cooking process but a rinse could remove.

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I rinse ribs to remove any odors from the croyovac then pat dry with paper towels. Same with brisket if there is an odor from packaging.

Absolutely agree - rinse if there's an odor, if rinsing doesn't take care of it - return it

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